The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 154
But they were very angry, and from that time I have been chained here, and I have lost my voice.
Who acts: bones, I · What happens: be, chain, lose · To what, where: I, voice
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 angry | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chained | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chained | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chained | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 chained | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 chained | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 chained | aux:pass |
| 14 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 chained | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lost | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 chained | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bones = bone | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chain | present · perfect · passive | I | here | time | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | lose | present · perfect | I | my voice | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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